1. Secondary metabolites present in medicinal plants and their extraction methods.
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Moscoso-Flores, M. F., Rodríguez-Palma, M., R-Diaz, Méndez-Iturbide, D., and Castañeda-Antonio, D.
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METABOLITES , *SUPERCRITICAL fluids , *MEDICINAL plants , *PLANT extracts , *BIOACTIVE compounds - Abstract
Plants are an important source of compounds that can be used for the treatment of various conditions or diseases in humans. Currently, medicinal plant extracts are used to make specific products for the benefit of health. Extraction processes such as maceration, percolation, preparation of decoctions and infusions are traditional methods with low efficiency, which is why they have been implemented and improved to have greater selectivity of bioactive compounds. Techniques include supercritical fluids, soxhlet, incisions, heat, etc. These extraction methods are more selective towards the compounds of greatest interest, in addition to working faster, causing less impact on the environment and being applied in a fully automated way compared to other types of methods. This review focuses on the different extraction methods for bioactive chemical compounds depending on the nature of the samples and their chemical classes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023